This one time at band camp.....

“American Pie” (the song by Don Mclean) is based on a secular humanist worldview. Throughout the song he makes it seem like there is no existence on God, writing "the father, son, and holy ghost caught the last train for the coast". Humans are in control, which is quite simple to tell by the line, "the jester stole his thorny crown". Humans are mortal-“This will be the day that I die”. Suffering- In the song God has left and there is no present God. His Hope is that he relies on the music to pull him through life, when there is no God. Values and Morals, He obviously doesn’t value love because he says, "the courtroom was adjourned; no verdict was returned". For Mclean, the only truth in this world was “music”; all he can do know is remember what music was to him.